You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.
Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.
. . . we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.
Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
Hope. . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.
Hope is merely another face of desire.
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.
Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.
Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
Chantal's only ruse. . . was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.
Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.